One of my favourite songs by gospel icon Sfiso Ncwane is entitled Kulungile Baba. You may know it? It’s a firm fan favourite. But as I walked into the Grace Bible Church in Soweto on Friday morning, the words of the song stirred deep inside my heart.

Eskom has requested the help of the public to bring to book the electricity thieves responsible for the deaths of 29 people and serious injuries suffered by 82 others in Kwazulu-Natal over the past three years as a result of illegal electricity connections and other forms of electricity theft.